rssHouse Rejects GOP Anti-AIG Resolution
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 at 1:00 pm
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Rep. Eric Cantor’s (R-Va.) office is spinning the rejection of H.R. 251, along party lines, as a de facto vote to “let AIG keep bonuses.”
Rep. Erik Paulsen and Rep. Leonard Lance offered a plan to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to implement a plan to recoup or stay the payment of AIG bonuses. To be clear, today’s vote was to stop the bonus payments on behalf of the American taxpayers.
I call this spin because everyone knows the Democrats are working on their own plan, and 1) knew that this resolution had no teeth and 2) weren’t going to let Republicans get a PR victory.
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[...] is sheer nonsense, and even Eric Cantor knows it. As Dave Weigel points out, the Democrats already have their own plan in place, and it’s a bill that will actually be [...]
Comment posted March 18, 2009 @ 10:39 pm
Breaking News: Dodd Says loophole that protects AIG Bonuses added per request of the Obama administration. The video is about a fifth of the way down.
http://www.butasforme.com/2009/03/17/obamas-sti…>
Obama should take full and direct responsibility for this mess.
Comment posted March 19, 2009 @ 5:39 am
Breaking News: Dodd Says loophole that protects AIG Bonuses added per request of the Obama administration. The video is about a fifth of the way down.
http://www.butasforme.com/2009/03/17/obamas-sti…>
Obama should take full and direct responsibility for this mess.
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